Charlie Puth Is Trying To Start His Own Drama With Selena Gomez, and It's Backfiring

glamour.com:

. While Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber have , Charlie Puth has decided to insert himself into the narrative, and it's not making him look very good.The whole mess started way back in 2015/2016, when Gomez and Puth collaborated on “We Don't Talk Anymore.” There were rumors at the time that the two of them were hooking up and/or dating, since Gomez and Justin Bieber were broken up, and Justin was actually starting to see Hailey.

Gomez denied that she and the “One Call Away” singer were ever more than , but the next year, Puth released his song “Attention,” about a girl seemingly stringing him along.Speaking of stringing along, Puth played coy in the press afterward, trying to have it both ways: a gentleman who wouldn't gossip, but also…maybe shading Selena in interviews. “I don’t kiss and tell, but the only way a song like ["We Don't Talk Anymore"] can come across as real is if there’s something else going on behind the scenes,” he told in 2018. “And that’s what was happening [with Gomez].

Very short-lived, very small, but very impactful. And it really messed me up. I’m trying to put this the best way possible: It wasn’t like I was the only person on her mind.

And I think I knew that going in—what I was getting myself into.” But okay, we all make mistakes, everyone grew up after that.